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  • English Word Obumbrant Definition Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers.
  • English Word Obumbrate Definition To shade; to darken; to cloud.
  • English Word Obumbration Definition Act of darkening or obscuring.
  • English Word Obuncous Definition Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
  • English Word Obvention Definition The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.
  • English Word Obversant Definition Conversant; familiar.
  • English Word Obverse Definition Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  • English Word Obverse Definition The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
  • English Word Obverse Definition Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
  • English Word Obversely Definition In an obverse manner.
  • English Word Obversion Definition The act of turning toward or downward.
  • English Word Obversion Definition The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception."
  • English Word Obvert Definition To turn toward.
  • English Word Obverted Definition of Obvert
  • English Word Obverting Definition of Obvert
  • English Word Obviate Definition To meet in the way.
  • English Word Obviate Definition To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.
  • English Word Obviated Definition of Obviate
  • English Word Obviating Definition of Obviate
  • English Word Obviation Definition The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.
  • English Word Obvious Definition Opposing; fronting.
  • English Word Obvious Definition Exposed; subject; open; liable.
  • English Word Obvious Definition Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
  • English Word Obvolute Definition Alt. of Obvoluted
  • English Word Obvoluted Definition Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.
  • English Word Oby Definition See Obi.
  • English Word Oca Definition A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.
  • English Word Occamy Definition An alloy imitating gold or silver.
  • English Word Occasion Definition A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.
  • English Word Occasion Definition A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.